Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:48

48 Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him ?

You ought to be ruled by us, and guided by us, who are your Rulers, and your Teachers, (so early did the Doctrine of implicite Faith and Obedience creep into the World) which is indeed to suppose an Infallibility in Teachers and Rulers, to whom indeed we owe all imaginable Reverence; but we must live by our own Faith: And tho the Iews were bound up, Deut. 17.10, 11. to do according to the sentiments that the Priests and Levites in Hierusalem should shew them; yet v. 11. it must be the sentence of the Law, and it was in Civil matters, as appeareth by v. 8. Controversies between Blood and Blood, Plea and Plea, Stroak and Stroak.

Marginal references: Chap. 12.42. Acts 6.7. 1 Cor. 1.20. and 2.8.